Retro Gaming News
He was 81 years of age. We have some sad news to bring you. Robert Caskin “Bobby” Prince III, the legendary composer behind Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Commander Keen, has passed away at the age of 81, following a battle with an undisclosed illness. The unfortunate news was announced to the public by his family…
Run ‘n gun arcade games were a staple of the 90s arcade scene, offering players a combination of challenging gameplay, explosive visuals, and satisfying combat. Similar to side-scrolling shoot ’em ups, but a bit slower paced by comparison, this genre was ideal for arcades, as their brutal difficulty ensured that gamers would continue to drop…
There is something quietly vertiginous about walking through an exhibition and finding yourself already inside it. Not a self you remember putting there, but a self distributed across objects, images, words; a self that arrived in the museum before you did, and which now looks back at you from behind glass. This happened to me…
Anyone who has ripped open a fresh booster pack knows the feeling. There’s the slight resistance of the foil, the quick fan of the cards, and that little jolt of suspense before the rare one either shows up or doesn’t. Video game trading cards — whether it’s a holo Charizard from the classic Pokémon TCG,…
There was a time when handheld gaming meant lugging around a chunky slab of plastic, a fistful of AA batteries, and a cartridge or two rattling in a jacket pocket. The Atari Lynx was the heavyweight champion of that era — a backlit color screen when rivals were stuck in grayscale, capable of being flipped…
Tune in at 5pm BT/9pm BST. QUByte Interactive, the Brazilian retro publisher, is holding the first-ever QUByte ReConnect showcase later today (June 18th, 2026). Described as “a showcase 100% dedicated to bringing retro classics to modern consoles,” QUByte ReConnect seems to be an extension of the QUByte Connect shows the company holds annually in October…
“This has saddened me to an extreme”. Barely Making Games, the developer of the upcoming Steam tribute to Densha De Go!, Retro Rail Go!, has suggested it could soon “halt” development of the project altogether after receiving a torrent of negative feedback on social media, where users have dubbed the game a “rip-off,” and have…
If you’re old enough to remember the NES launch in America, you’re likely old enough to remember residual hand wringing in Washington, D.C. about the so-called Cold War “missile gap.” In the 1950s and ’60s, that doctrine stated that the Soviet Union had a numeric advantage over the U.S. in terms of intercontinental missiles capable…
Rpgmakerweb.com is closed to posts from today. Gotcha Gotcha Games has announced that RPG Maker’s official forums are closing this December, taking with them 14 years of community-made guides and resources (thanks, Dexerto). The company is replacing rpgmakerweb.com with RPG MAKER GUILD, a new official RPG Maker forum which it will operate directly. The objective…
The demo is available now! A new unofficial port of Sega’s revolutionary isometric shooter Zaxxon is scheduled to release for the Atari 2600 this October, and you can play it right now, thanks to a brand new demo available from the developer’s website. Zaxxon was released in arcades back in 1981, almost 45 years ago,…